Absorptive Capacity and Information Systems Research: Review, Synthesis, and Directions for Future Research

By Nicholas H. Roberts, Pamela S. Galluch, Michael Dinger, Varun Grover. MIS Q., 2012

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Leveraging Information Technology Infrastructure to Facilitate a Firm's Customer Agility and Competitive Activity: An Empirical Investigation (2012, background): “It infrastructure’s role in the creation, storage, transfer, and application of organizational knowledge is well established [38, 80].”
The effect of social networking sites and absorptive capacity on SMES’ innovation performance (2016, background): “Absorptive capacity needs both a stock of existing and new knowledge (Liao and Yu 2013; Roberts et al. 2012).”
The roles of absorptive capacity and cultural balance for exploratory and exploitative innovation in SMEs (2017, background): “, 2005), coordination and socialization capabilities (Roberts et al., 2012), and exposure to diverse sources of external knowledge and the firms' past experiences that are internalized (Zahra & George, 2002).”
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy (2019, background): “If AI technology is made available, the absorptive capacity of these owners ability to understand the potential is limited (Roberts, Galluch, Dinger, & Grover, 2012).”
Creating Strategic Business Value from Big Data Analytics: A Research Framework (2018, background): “Absorptive capacity [45] Value is based on the ability to identify valuable external knowledge, assimilate or transform this knowledge into the firm’s knowledge base, and apply this new knowledge through innovation and competitive actions.”
Digital innovation: A review and synthesis (2019, background): “However, an organization's ability to absorb new knowledge is critical to digital innovation (Roberts, Galluch, Dinger, & Grover, 2012).”